Weft-replenishing loom.



PTENTED FEB. 18, 1908.'.

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WBPT REPLBNISHING LOOM.-

APPLIOATIOH FILED HAY 1.1905.

4 SHEETS-SHEET 1.

PATENTED PEB. 1a, 190s.

R: GROMPTON. WBFT REPLENISHI NG LOOM.

APPLICATION FILED HAY l. 1905.

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WBPT REPLBNISHING LOOM.

APPLICATION FILED HAY 1. 1905.

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PATENTED FEB. 18, 1908.

UNI'ED STATES PATENT oEEicE.

I RANDOLPH GROMPTON, F WORCESTER, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR, BY MESNE ASSIGNMENTS, TO CROMPTON d: KNOWLES LOOM WORKS, A CORPORATION OF` MASSACHUSETTS.

WEET-REPLENISHING LOOM.

Specification of Letters Patent. Patent-ed. Feb. 18, 1908. l

i No. 879,358. i i i Application filed Hay 1i.l1905. Burial No. 258.1601'. l;

' To all whom 'it may concern.'

Beit known that I, RANnoLPH CROMPTON, a citizen of the United States and a resident of Worcester, in the county of Worcester and 5 State of Massachusetts, have invented an Improvement in Wett-Replenishing Looms,

of which the following description, in connection with the accompanying drawin 0' is a specification, like letters on the drawings 4 l0 representing like parts.

This invention relates to that class of loom employing shifting shuttle-boxes, each box containing a shuttle havin filling differing 1n color or material from t at in the other shuttles, and with which shuttle-boxes coact a filling-feeder having filling-carriers pro vided with corresponding with the filling used in different shuttles controlied by the shuttle-boxes.

dated March 1, 1898, shows a loom provided i 2o A patent ofthe United StateaNft 600,053,

u with a.fillin -fveeder such as referred to,

which throug connections with the shuttleboxes (said connection including ears) 1s moved in unison with said shutt e-boxes whereb a filling-earner having a filhn cor-' respon ing in color or character wit the in watever shuttle is acting, may be maintained in proper position to be put into '30 the acting shuttle whenever the filling is fully exhausted from the filling-carrier then in the shuttle, or Whenever the fillin breaks. The filling-feeder referred to is osci lated for every change of position of the shuttle-boxes irrespectxve of the condition or amount of filling n the acti shuttle.

' In looms or weaving check ginghams, for which the loom herein referred to is more particularly adapted, it is necessary for the 40 production of rfect cloth to obv'iate leaving a short shot o filling in the cloth as the same A is especially noticeable when weavin in colors, and consequentl ,to obviate s ort filling the indication for c ange of fillin must be made just prior to exhaustion of filing in the acting shuttle. Patent No. 692,933 dated February 1l,

1902, shows a loom of the class referred to having provision for effecting a change of 'so filling from the finingffeeder into the acting shuttle rior to complete exhaustion of the filling-carriers is moved in unison with the shuttle-boxes as provided for in United States Patent No. 600,053. In my studies to improve and'simplifythis class of loom and increase its speed I have provided a filling-feeder thatvis unconnected with the shuttle-boxes and consequently stands normaily at rest during the weaving of the cloth so long as the filling is not exhausted.

aThe filling-feeder in my improved loom is to be moved prior to practical exhaustion of the filling in the act-ing shuttle, at which time the filling-feeder is moved to bring it in co-acting relation tc the particular shuttie having filling corresponding with the filling in the shuttle which is to be replenished or inl other Words the filling-feeder is moved only after a detector has indicated that the filling in an active shuttle is )ractically exhausted, the movement of the fi ing-feeder being then for a greater or iess distance to place a fillingcarrier having filling of the desired color or character in posit-ion to be transferred into the active shuttle at the next forward beat of the lay after the shuttle, which has caused the indication, has been returned to the iilxng-feeder end ofthe lay. Furthermore, it is of eat advantage to retain the feeder normal stationary for the reason that it may be readily supplied with filling-carriers, which would be. avery difficult task were the carriers moved in unison with the shuttleboxes; and also in my invention by simply changing the stops to be described in their positlon in one or the other holes of the bases any'number of filling-carriers, of either color, ma j be readily appiied to the feeder, which Wil ordinarily contain from sixteen i. to twenty-four filling-carriers, and one or more carriers of one oo or might be placed in the feeder and all the' other carriers be of a different color; orin other words the weaver may supply the same with fillingcarriers to correspond with the particular pattern being woven. As, for instance, if the pattern being woven calls for a much greater quantity of filling of one color from that of another color the skilled operative can supply the filling-feeder with filling of the required,

colors 1n an approximating ratio, andin so' .domg not only great-1y increase the4 capacity' of the loom but' also increase theo'utput thereof. 'Figure 1 in lfront elevation, broken out centrally, shows a sufficient portion of a loom embodying my present improvements to enable my invention to be understood; Fig. 2 is aY left hand end view of the loom with the picker-stick omitted, th'e shuttleboXes being in section on the line Fig. 1, said ligure also showing a shuttle-box actuating mechanism and a pattern surface, Fig. 2, on a larger scale, shows a part of the inner end of the feeder with a stop applied in some of the holes; Fig. 3 is a right hand elevation, the illing-feetler being in section; Fiff. 3", a detail showing in to i view part of a sliuttle; Fig. 3b, a section o` the indicator D on the line x', Fig. l; Fig. 3, a section on the line :r2-Fig. 3b; Fig.' t is a partial plan view showing the -iilling-fceder and partof the lay with its single shuttlebox, a shuttle being ccntained therein; Fig. 5 is an enlarged detail of the filling-feeder; and Fig. is a section on the line so, Fig. 5.

The loom frame A, the breast beam A', the cam-shaft B, the crank-shaft C, the gears C --and C2 between said shafts, the lay H'having the usual reed, the lay connecting rods H', said lay having, as shown at its right hand end, viewing Figs. 3 and 4, a stationary shuttle-box, and at its left hand end shifting shuttle-boxes ll2 represented as having but two cells and 'carried by a shuttle-box n, the transferrer 26 are and mav be all substantially as described by like letters in United States Patent No. 600,053, dated March 1, 1898, and it will' be understood that in practice the shuttlefbox rod and shuttlefboxes are shifted by a lever H moved at the. desired time by usual shuttleboX actuating mechanism which may be such as shown in said Patent No. 600,053, or

-by any other usual form of mechanism commonly employed for moving a shuttle-box lever tocontrol the position of the different cells of the shuttle-box and place each cell at the' proper time at the level of the race of Athe lay as called for by',thc shuttle-box pattern-surface ps which may be of any usual construction.

Patent No. 600,053, shows a shifting sluittle-boX having three cells` whereas, in'the manner in which I have herein chosen to illustrate my invention the shuttle-box is represented as having two cells capable of handling two shuttles having filling diilcring 'fin color or material. The invention to be hereindescribed is not, however, limited to the number of cells in the shuttlt-iox so long as there is more-than one cell, and it will be understood by those skilled in the art of weaving that the -shuttlediox lever used will he moved in usual manner and by usual devices commonly einployed to mo` ea shuttle-box of whatever number of cells, such mechanism as that used on the well known Crompton leoni for weaving ging-hams.

The cam-shalt, ser` 3, the cam C3 conneeted herewith and lprovided with a eamgroove shown by dotted lines, the roller c, the lever c pivoted'at cona stand c', the aetuator or rod c, the'guide-arm c5, the indicator D having several recesses in each of which is pivoted a dog or lifter d having each a connected spring d, the shuttles g open .from their top to their bottom sides for the passage therethrough of a filling-carrier wz, r2, best shown in Figs. 3 and 4, and having a metallic conductor g" thereon adapted to be acted u on by detectors g shown as springs carried liy the shuttle and acting against said conductor prior to complete exhaustion of the filling, the metallic strips g applied to said shuttle, the spring-fingers j" to contact with said strips as the shuttle enters the single shuttle-box; the bracket f, the electromagnet f, the armatre f3 havingahole to embrace loosely the actuator or rod c, the wires 1 and 2 connecting the usual binding posts of the electro-magnet, and the terminalsbfi to which the fingers f are attached, the attery P, the gear connected with the hub ofthe indicator D, the rod h2 having tllo rack h engaging said gear, the collar h, the spring h surrounding said rod between said collar and the guide ha, the cord h, 'and sheaves h5 over which s aid cord ,is extended, said cord at the left hand end of the loom. as herein shown, being connected with a collar h carried by the shuttle-box rod 11., the cam b4, the lever b actuatedthereby and connected by rod b and lever b with the bunter 6"', which is thus made vertically movable at the front of the lay, are and may be all asindicated by like letters in Unit-ed States Patent No. 692,933, dated February 11, 1902, with the exception that herein the indicator l) is shown as semi-circular instead of circular and has but two dogs or litters d, for the reason that, as stated, the present drawing embodying my invention shows a shifting shuttle box wit-h but two cells. It will, however, be A'understood that the indicator will, in practice, have a dog or lifter d for each cell of the shifting shuttle-box, whatever the number of cells, and also that the indicator will be moved by the rod h2; and the dogs or lifters d will be moved by the rod or actuator c* controlled by the electro-magnet prior to complete exhaustion ofthe filling lin the acting shuttle, all as and for the purposes set forth in the last named patent.

The indicator by its connection with the shuttle-box rod is moved in unison with the shuttle-boxes, the dogs or litters will be uctuated in the time and for the purposes set forth in Patent No. 002-, 933, and the change ot position of the bunter to place it in position to moet the raised dagger as the lay is moved forward after the idling-feeder to be described has been unlocked and moved and stopped by the arresting device to be described, said bunter meeting said dagger and emacs 8 causing the transferrer to effect a change of the filling in the active shuttle as stated in the last named patent.

"hile the mechanism shown in Bate-nt No. 692,5133, is well adapted for actuating the t-ransferrer 26, common to both said patents, to take a filling-carrier fromthe filling-feeder therein shown and put it into tht` active shuttle in` which the filling is nearly exhausted, instead of the filling-carrier thun in said shuttledisch:irging.said substantially exhausted` filling-carrier through the bottom of the shutt-le, l desire to state that this invention not limited to the particular detecting mechanism shown. and instead i may, without departing from my invention, employ any usual detecting mechanism, either electric -or mechanical, adapted to indicate. prior to 17 under the control of the indicator 1) Which,latter lifts the dagger, as provided for in United States Patent No. 692,933, when 4the dagger is to be struck by the bunter 5 connected with the lay as the latter is mov ing toward. the breast-beam at that beat at. which the transferrer 26 is to be actuated, as provided for in the last named atent, to

V'trnisfer a filling-carrier from tic fillingi feeder or creel into thel act-ive shuttle .then in the lsingle shuttle-box of the lay, the latter being in its forward position, The outer end of the 'disk 19 of the filling-feeder is connected with the inner ringlshaped end 20 thereof by 'bars 21, and the inner side of the 'outer disk is 'grooved, in usual mannenfor the reception of the delivery ends of the usual filling-car` riers sustaining masses of filling, and there is extended from the outerend of the feeder, or creel, the usual circular flange to whicl^ is attached the end of the filling connected with the fillin masses. The inner end of the hub of the fil ing-feeder has an attached ratchet.

toothed gear 22, and alongside thereof is an attached collar 30 with which is connected one end of a feeder moving device 31 shown as :coiled spring, the opposite end ofsaid spring be 0' attached to a stud 32 fixed on the stan .13.A

The device 3l acts normally to turn the fillingffeeder about the stud- 12 in the direcf tion of the arrows pmpsratpry to actuating thedmnslerrer 26 to replenish the active shuttle, said feederbeing arrested with the filling-carrier to he transferred from the filling-feeder into the active shuttle by a novel arresting device herein shown as a finger 33 extending laterally from a rod or shank 34 free. to be slid in a guide 35 extended inwardly from the breast beam. The lower end of the shank 34 is rovided with a fixed collar or arm 36 with which is jointed at 37 a depending toothed leg 38, the lower end of.

which slides in a guide-block 39.

The leg of the arresting' device is shown as located at the end of the loom where the filluig-feeder is mounted, and the teeth of thel leg are engaged by a pinion 40 on a. shaft 41 extended under the breast-beam to the shuttle-box side of the loom where said Shaft is provided with an arir. 42 hav U, as shown, a pin that enters a slot in the en of allever 43 ivoted at 44 on a sta-nd 45 sustained at the oom side. This lever, bent laterally, see Fig. 1, has jointed to it at 46 a-rod 47, the

lower end of which is in turn secured loosely to 'a block 48 secured to the shuttle-box rou fn..

The arresting device 33, it will be seen, is raised and lowered in unison with the shuttle-boxes, it occu ving its elevated position, see Fig. when t e cell r' of dieghtxttlbox, which may be supposed to contain the shuttle-supplying say a red filling, said device 0ccupying its lowered position, as shown by dotted lines, when the cell w, that may beconsidered as receiving the shuttle contain-- ing white filling, occupies a position at the level ofthe race of the lay.

The pivot-44 of the lever is so located that the extent of movement of the arresting device is much less than that of the shuttleboxes, and so that the finger 33 will occupy a definite position with relation to certain stops, to be described, carried by the fillingfeeder according to which cell of the shuttlebox is at the level of the race of the lay, and this finger remains in each of its positions so long as one or the other of the cells of the shuttlc-box occupies a position at the level of the race of the lay. The filling-feeder, as herein described, must contain fill' -carriers provided with fillingr differing in co or or in character, as say red and white, and as I have illustrated my invention I apply the filling-carriers having filling differing in color or material, as will now be described.

llleferring to Figs. 5 and 6, where the-inner 1 ring-shaped end 20 of the fillin -feeder :is shown enlarged, it will be notice that said ring is provided with a series of sto comprising a base 49 provided with two olea 50 and 51 in one of which I place either of the two projections w or r', maintained, as herein provided for in their operative position or extended beyond the inner end of the feeder by the filling-carriers 'wj r. The rojections w are applied to the fholes 50 while the the ring 20 I have mounted project-ions r are applied to the innermost t jection i", and a red tillingiwill be placed in olcs 5l, and but one stop will be put in one lof the two holes of each base.

The inner side of the. ringF 20 is provided with a series of cavities` in which are placed springs 54, there being t wo such springs interposed between the ring :'20 and the ears of thc base, as 'shown in Fig. 6 and by dotted lines in Fig. 5, said springs acting normalhv to movel the .st-ops inwardly as ii'iilicated at the bottom of Fig. 6, where a stop is shown in its inoperative position. At. the inner side of a series of shoulders having` overhaiiginif lips against hich may Contact. thi.: ears of the base -ttl under the action of thesprings 5l.

The projections zii', r', are alike. l may to occupy a. posit-ion in holes 5G most distant fro nl the longitudinal axis of the tilling- .fe'edei to indicate, for instance wliiteiilling,

and the stops having the proieetions r" in the holes 51 occupy a. position 1i ati'er the i longitudinal-axis of the tilting-feeder, to 1n- These two dicate, for instance red tillingi series of stops are fiillv'shown in Fig. 21 and partially in Fig. 2, and it will be. understood that there will be as man v circular rows of stops as there are cellsin the shitting: shuttlebox, and that the. projections il". r', will when the loom is started be applied preferably alternatel)Y in the holes :'it) and 5l, i. r. a. projection in in one hole in ontl base and a hrojeetion r iii the other holo of the next base, so that all the projections corresponding witii a particular color of t` ing will oecup}Y alternato hoh-sof one circular series 0f holes, and other projections oi' stops indicating another color' of filling will occupy alternato holes ot' another circular series ol' holes. i

filling-,carriers I ma;v insert tirst. a carrier havincY whitc tilting and then a carrier having red filling, and the head end ot' each carrier as it is applied to the filling-feeder will act against the base ot' a stop and will proiect from the inne-r end ol' the fillingfeedei' the projection carried by said base. thus puttini r said stops in `their operative projected bv a tillingcarrier iii the tiltingfeeder. 'lienever a tilting-carrier is eiecied from the tilling-t'eeder i* releases a stop so that the springs 54 thereof retract the stop and move it. to the right .see the underside oll Fig. (i, thus placing the .stop in its inoperative position. These stops, when the tillng-feeder is turned at't'er unlockingr the same, strike the arrester .'33, described. which is level of the racc ot' ythe la)l the arrester 3:5 stands 1n the path ol' movement oia pro- As the tilliirr-"eeder is bein;T supplied with position under the tiiinsl'errei', and viewing Fil. 2 when the shuttle-box is raised to place the cell il: opposite the race oi" the lay, the arrester will be lower and pnt in the path of movement oi the projection w', and a .llingcarrier having a white tilline corresponding with the tiltingr in the shutt e which is contained in the shuttle-box cell u: will be out in position under the transferrer. The dagger 17, see Fig. 3. has je ated to it at (5t) a link 6] in turn jointed to a pawl 62, pivoted at Gla' on the stand 13, or on some other tixcd part of the loom. The tooth of this pawl engages the teeth of the ratchet 50 toothed wheel 22, and holds the filling-feeder i locked or stai.i..iiia.ry [hiring the 'shifting of empli@v a set of stops in which the projections the shuttle-boxes in the process of weaving, as called for is: the shuttle-box patte-meurface or chain, so long as the active shuttles, g5 of whatever number, being. thrown across the lav from one. to the other box are su plied with filling. I may use` any usual pic ing mechanism 'common to looms for actuating the shuttles. The feeder locking device is moved or raised to release the ratchettoothed-wheel and perret the device 31 to move the illingfeeder in the direction ot' the arrow only after the miiveiiient of the indicator D, as rovided for in said Patent No. 692,933, saii indicator being made operative only after the detector, of whatever form, has indicated that the tf'lini.r in an active shuttle is nearly or substantially exhausted. Whenever the loi-hin;r device is moved to unlock the fillingi'ecder the device 31 will act to turn said feeder in the direction of the arrow until a projection r' or 11.." of one of the series of stops meets the ai'restiiigi device 33, it then occu- 105 p viii; r a position callingr l'or either a. red or si.

white till-ing;r so that said arresting device re.-

fing to vthe number of stops maintained in positions, aifd said stops will remain in their f, operative positions so long as they are. held operative position h v idling-carriers, 'the moveiiirnt beiner for a less distance when the filling-feeder has its t'ull siipplv of filling-carriers and all the stops are in their operativ-3 positions, than when a number of filling-cars riers have been taken from the idling-feeder and periiiiited the stops to be moved into their 'imperative positiinis.- -Aftei the filling-feeder has been ni'neil until a stop has met and been arrested bv said 'arrestinir de- 12.3

g vice Ii and the tiaiisterrer-has been moved moved in unison ith the shuttle-boxes, and f when the; cell i o't the .shuttle-box is :it the to eil'ect :i change ol' iilliiie ilie tilting-feeder the filling-feeder occupies its normal position with the spring 31 wound up, and with the point of the arm 29 of the restoring mechanism directed backwardly'tbward the lay.

Now let it be assumed that the detector acts because the filling in the shuttle in the cell r is nearly or substantially exhausted. This exhaustion will result in the movement 4of the rod c, as provided for in Patent No.

692,933, to raise that one of the lifters d of the indicator D then over it, that depending l on the position ofthe indicator which is 2s 'moved in unison with the shuttle-boxes, and

' -the lifter d will raise the dagger from the position, Fig. 3, and putvthe same in the 1path of he bunter, and at the same time the ocking fdevice will be moved to release the fillingfeeder and let the spring 31 turn the same in the direction of the arrow, Fig. 2, which it will do unless a stop corresponding with the vcolor of the filling called for is not at such time already practically-in contact with the arrest-cr 33, `which .is the case in Fig. 2 in 'which condition the lilling-feeder will not be moved by the spring ,l

The filling-feeder is released by raising the dagger while the lay is on its back-stroke after the necessity of change of filling has been indicated by the detector and Whilethe acting shuttle was in the single shuttle-box, and while said feeder is released the shuttle containing the nearly exhausted filling is thrown back into its ownA cell of, the shifting shuttle-box. -As the shuttle, having the filling which is to be changed, again returns 4to the single shuttle-box as provided for in the last mentioned pat.ent,tlie lay in its forward movement, the daggcr being lifted and the filling-fecderbelng unlocked and one of the stops, as 1, being. in contact with the' arrester, the bunter will meet the dagger and move the transferrer, causing the latter to transfer a filling-carrier from the feeder into the shuttle, and atfthe saine time the dagger will depress the dog or lifter then under it, as provided for 1n Patent No. 692,933, and as the lay starts back the tooth of the pawl again engages the ratchet-wheel and locks the lilling-fcedcr. Now suppose that aiilling-carrier having red filling has been inserted in the shuttle carried in the cell 1- of' the shuttle-box', and consequently 65 the projectionr, whic-hwas effective as above 'such movement varying due to the described and shown in Fig. 2, has been rotracted by the springs 54, the lil -feeder cannot move because it is held by t locking device. Now suppose that ins projection r occu ying a position practically in contact with t e arrester 33, as in Fig. 2 when the filling-feeder was unlocked, stop occupied t e position indicated by r", then when the dagger is raised the'locking device is moved to release the filling-feeder, the sring 31 will immediately act and tum the f ing-feeder in the direction of the arrow until the stop marked rI meets the arrester. During this movement 'of the filling-feeder the restoring mechanism described 'will bb moved and will turn the arm 29 forwardly for a greater or less distance, that depending u on the extent of movement given to the ling-feeder by the spring, the extent of.

of the projection in the inner circle ofholes ofthe bases of the stops.

, The lay, Fig. 4, is provided with a dog mounted on a stud-screw 66, and acted upon by a spring 67. As the lay is moved forward to actuate the dagger the vdog passes the arm 29 in whatever position it is put by the tuming of the filling-feeder under the action of position teadofa` the sprin 31 but when the lay returns on its back stro e the end of the dog acted upon by said spring meets the right hand side of the arm 29 and turns the same and the train of gearing described, causing the gear 24 in enng-'feeder 4backwardly and wind up the spring 31 restoring the-lilling-feeder t` its.

normal position; A

. From the foregoing descriptiomand u provided for in Patent N o. 692,933, it will be understood that should a shuttle become glalgement with the pini0n.23 tol turn the,

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ractically exhausted on reacl'ingthe single liox side of the loom, the described electric circuit will be completed to place the rod c*A in position to raise a lifter d, es explained, on the back stroke of the lay, andsaid lifter will raise the dagger and unlock the filling-feeder and the latter'will be moved by spring 31 until a. stop representing the color-be called for meets the arrester; The cally. exhausted shuttle will be picked to the drop-box side of the lay, and as the lay is next moved forward the bunter is put injt inoperative position and consequently the practin dagger is not struck and the transferrer ro.-

mains at rest. At the next forward beat' of the lay the shuttle which is to receive filling having been picked onto theun? shuttle-box, the .bunter having been, in t o'.

meantime, put mto its operative position will strike said da ger and eilect'a change of filling. Should, however, the drop-boxes be moved after throwing the practicall exhausted shuttle into a cell cf the shifting shuttle-box, so that 'another shuttlefbox brings its shuttle into play, it becomes neces- 13o lfilling in an/active shuttle controlled by said 'shuttle-boxes.

,' normally stationary fiiling-feeder provided v the operation of said transferring mechanl -nected to the latter, an indicator carrying a anism, means to lock and release the fillingindependently of the shuttle-boxes to place a filling-carrier of the color called for hy the pattern in the cloth heingwoven, I desire to state that while I prefer to restore automat.- ically the filling-feeder to its normal positionafter each change of filling vet in v invention would not be departed from should the fillingfeederbe turned backwardly at ti nies hy hand. a8 it may be, thus rewinding the spring.

Having fully described my invention, l what I claim as new anddesire to secure by Letters Patent is l. In a filling-changing loom. a series of shifting or drop shuttle -boxes, combined with an unconnected filling-feeder containing filling-carriers, 'means to restrain the movement of said filling-feeder while the shifting shuttle-boxes are o erated and their shuttles are being actuate to laiv filling in the shed, and means for supplying filling to said shuttles.

2. In a filling-changing loom, shifting or drop shuttle-boxes, anorinally stationary filling-feeder containing filling-carriers, and filling-changing means to effect a change of `3. In. a loom, shifting shuttle-boxes, a

with filling-carriers, transferrinv mechanism to transfer a carrier from said feeder into a shuttle rior to substantial exhaustion of the filling' t erein, and devices vfor suspending ism until a subsequent arrival of the nearly exhausted shuttle into the shuttle-box adjacent said filling-feeder.

4. In a loom, shifting or dro shuttleboxes, a filling-feeder unconnecte with said drop shuttle-boxes and occupying normally a stationary position, filling-changing mechanism including a transferrer, a dagger conseries of lfters, and connections between i said indicator and drop shuttle-boxes to l move the former in unison with the latter, i an actuator, and means to move the same rior to complete exhaustion-of the filling in an active shuttle to raise said lifter to place thedagger in position to beactuated 5. Ina loom, a filling-feeder to sustain a series of filling-carriers, transferring mechfeeder, a spring acting normally to move said feeder in one direction when released, and an arrestin device to arrest the fillingl feeder with a ling-carrier in the path of movement of the arm of the transferring mechanism.

6. In a loom, a filling-feeder to sustain a series of `filling-carriers, transferring mechanism, shifting shuttle-boxes disconnected from said filling-feeder, means to lock Iand i 'release the filling-feeder, a device acting! normally'to move said feeder in one direction l to re the path of movement of the acting end of the transferring arm of flic transferring mechanism.

7. ln a loom, having a layprovidcd with shifting shuttle-boxes, a filling-feeder unconnected with the shuttle-boxes and provided with filling carriers, means independent of the lay for moving said feeder prior to complete exhaustion of the filling in the active shuttle, transferring mechanism, means to arrest the. feeder-in position for the transferring arin cf the transferring mechanism to act on a filling-carrier having 'filling corresponding with that in the active shuttle controlled by the shuttle-Loses, and means to actuate said transferring mechanism to effect a change of filling in said active shuttle.

S. In a loom, a filling-feeder having a pluralitv of stos located at different distances from its ongitudiiial axis and maintained.' in their operative. positions by filling carriers in said feeder.

9. In a loom, a fillin -feeder hihving a plurality of stops locate at different distances from its longitudinal axis, said means being acted upon by filling-carriers in said feeder to maintain said stops in their operative position, combined with means for arresting said stops to stop the feederin desired position.

10. In a loom, a filling-feeder having a lutality of stops combined with means act- Ying normally to retain said stops in their inoperative sition. 1l. In a oom, a filling-feeder having a lara-litiY of series of stops arranged at diferent i'stances from the cent-er of rotation of said feeder, means to lock and unlock said feeder, a feeder moving device to move said feeder in one. direction when unlocked, transferring mechanism, means to o rate the same prior to complete exhaustion of the filling in the active shuttle to transfer filling from said feeder into said shuttle prior to complete exhaustion of the filling in said shuttle, and ineens for moving said feeder backwardly into its normal position.

12. In a filling-changing loom, shifting or drop-shuttle-bones, a normally stationary7 fillin 7-feeder containingfilling-carriers, means lease 'said feeder prior to complet-e exhaustion of the filling in an active shuttle, means to arrest said feeder, and filling-changing means to effect the transfer of filling from said feeder into said active shuttle.

13,' In a filling-changing loom, shifting or drop shuttle-boxes, a filling-feeder containing filling-carriers, means to lock said fillingfeeder and restrain the motion of the same ico ion

in the path o movement. of the arm of the 'dicatc a change of filling, a feeder arrester during the changing of the shuttles through t shifting of 'the drop shuttle-boxes, means to i unlock said feeder prior to complete exhausf tion of the filling in an active shuttle, means to arrest said feeder, and filling-changing;

means to effect a change of filling in said ac- 5 tive shuttle prior to complete exhaustion of l the same.

14. In a filling-changing loom, shifting or 'f drop shuttle-boxes, a normally stationary filling-feeder containing filling-carriers, means to release said feeder prior to complete exhaustion of the filling in an active shuttle, 'filling-feeder arresting means. a device to turn said unlocked feeder until stopped by said arresting' means, and filling-changing means to efl'ect a change of filling in said active shuttle prior to complete exhaustion of the filling therein.

15. In a loom, shifting shuttle-boxes, a filling-feeder to sustain a series of filling-carriers, transferring mechanism, means to lock and release. the filling-feeder, a device acting normally to move said feeder in one direction when released, and an arresting device conx nected to and moved in unison with said' shifting shuttle-boxes, and `adapted to arrest.the filling-feeder with the flling-carrier transferring mechanism.

16. ln a loom, filling transferring mechanism, a filling-feeder to contain-filling masses i differing in color and arranged 'therein at will more of one than of the other color, means t0 move said feeder preparatory to a transfer of filling, and means under the control of' a pattern-surface to arrest the feeder in position to insure the. transfert-nee therefrom of filling of the color called for. 17. ln a loom, a filling-feeder to contain filling masses differing in color, means to in- Inoved in unison with the shuttle-boxes while thefecder is at rest. ,a device to move the feeder to he stopped by said arrosterwith filling of g the color called for in position to hc trans-l ferred, and transferring mechanism to transg fer filling of the required color to the active i shuttle.

1b'. ln a loom, a filling-feeder to contain filling masses differing in color, means to indicatc a change of filling, means controlled ixulcpendentl)r of the usual shuttle-boxes to hold said feeder stationary, means to move. the feeder to bring filling of the desired color into position to he transferred, and transferring mechanism to I rausl'er said filling into the act ive shuttle to he resupplied will. filling.

It). In a filling replenishing mechanism for looms, n. filling-feeder, a device to hold the saine stationary, :nouns to refr-:1re said. devire, an arresting device, means lo turn said t feeder until cheeked by said arresting de- Vico, and means to restore said filling-feeder' into its normal position.

withthe shuttle-boxes adapted to sustain fillingwarriers` differing in co 'ir or character, and means to move said filling-feeder from a vnormal position of rest until stopped by said arrester with filling of the colo:` or character called for between the transferring arm of said transferring mechanism and the shuttle tobe supplied with filling, and means to actuate said transferring mechanism to effect a change of filling.

21. In a loom, a lay, shifting shuttle-boxes` controlling shuttles having filling differing in color or character, a filling-feeder arrester the. position of which is changed as a shuttle having one or the other color is active, a fillingfeeder unconnected wit-h tite shuttle-boxes and normally at rest, a filling transferring device, means prior to a change of filling to move said fil ing-feeder from its position of rest until stopped by said arrester, and means to move said transferring device t-o transfer filling of the desired color into the active shuttle. 95

22. ln a loom, the combination of a lay, a filling-feeder containing a lurality of filling- 'carriers containing filling iffering in color or character and normally at rest during the action of the 'shuttlenons7 a detecting device 100 arranged adjacent to said lining-feeder, and means intermediate said detecting device and said shifting shuttle-boxes to defer a change of filling tc a subsequent pick.

23. A lay, filling-feeder arresting means, shifting shuttle-boxes at one end ofthe lay, a filling-feeder adjacent the opposite end of the la}r and provided with devices adapted to be put into operative position by filling-carriers containing filling differing in color or character. each device being put. into operative position only by a carrier having a filling corre spending u1 color or character with said de- 24. Inaloom,the combination with transferring mechanism, of a lay, a shuttle-box, a filling-feeder adj leent thereto, a detectin device, and independent means to arrest sai feeder between the time of a'ction of said detector and said transferring mechanism.

25. ln a filling-changing loom, a fillingfeeder provided at its inner ends with two circular series of stops adapted to he maintained in their operativo positions hy presence of' filling-carriers in said feeder.

26. ln a loom, a filling-feeder having filling-receiving spaces ,and a series of stops adapted to occupy oto-h one or another position at the end ol' twoit `space according as l filling of' one or afwxzcr color or character is 130 to be putin one` or another space of said carnel.

27. In a loom, a filling-feeder having fill?, lng-receiving spaces and aseries of stops apted to occupy each one or another position at the end of each space, according as filling of one or another color or character is to be put in one or another space of said ear-V dicative of filling of one or another co or or character ni'eets said arrester, and means to actua-te said transferring mechanism to effest a transfer of filling.

. 28. In a. loom having shifting shuttleboxesl a-nornially stationary filling-feeder containing filling differing in c'olor or character, filling-transferring mechanism, an arrester, means to place said arrester in one o another position according to the color or character of filling required, and detecting mechanism to cause the feeder to present a filling of the colorer character called for by the active. shuttle to be replenished inthe path of movement of the transferring arm of the transferring mechanism, and means to move said transferring arm to effect a change oftilling in the active shuttle. A 129. Itho loom," a la shifting shuttleboxes at one end thereo and a filling-feeder adjacent to the opposite .end thereof and normally at rest and arranged to receive fillingcarriers having filling differing in color or character, and means arranged therein so that the filling-carriers may he placed in said feeder in any desired position.

30. In a loom, a lay, shifting shuttleboxes at one end thereof", a filling-feeder ad- 'acent the opposite end of thel lay having ling-receiving spaces-and provided withstups or devices to indicate thc color or character of filling placed in each of said spaces of said feeder, said feeder heing iioi'nmlly at rest, an arrester intermediate said shiftingA shuttle-boxes and said filling-feeder and ada )ted to co-act with said stops or devices, a re easing device, a device :irriinged to detect the practical exhaustion of filling in any ofthe. active shuttles, and n variable winding mechanism for said filling-feeder,

31, A lay, shifting shuttle-hores at one end and a filling-feeder adjacent to the plain lend or said lay, said feeder having devices nrraiiged to correspond with the different color and character of filling in sind l'eeder,iiiid an arrester moved into one oi' another position Ahined with a feeder arrester, and means to place the saine in position to iirrcst said ceder in the position lo )resent into trans ferring iositioii a filling oi`thi color or char@ acter cnih-d for in the pattern lit-ing woven.

33. ln it loom of the chiss described, -a filling-feeder iioriiinlly nt rest and containing lillinr dilleriii'r iii color or t-,ln'iracter coin.

hint-d with a feeder arrester, tiicnns to place thc saine in position to arrest said feeder iii the position to presi-itt into transferring position a filling of the color ori-.haracter called for in the pattern heilig woven, iiieiiiis to release said feeder, and means to move said fccdci' :titer it is released.

'in testimony whereof, l have signed my iianic to this specification, iii thc presence of twosuhsci'ihiiig witnesses.

Witnesses; t

(ino. W. (humour, MAiioAici-z'i A. DUNN. 

